Columbus, IN—Early Saturday morning a gas station clerk received minor injuries after a struggle over her car keys with a suspect armed with a knife. At approximately 4:20 a.m., CPD officers were dispatched to the Get-n-Go gas station located at 3545 West County Road 450 South in Columbus.
Officers determined that the gas station clerk was grabbed outside the store by the suspect, Josey R. Keesling, 29, of Noblesville, IN and robbed of her car keys with a knife. The clerk received cuts and lacerations during a struggle with Keesling.
Keesling fled the gas station in the victim’s car and was spotted by a Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputy on Interstate 65 a short time later where a vehicle pursuit ensued. The suspect pulled over near the 83-mile marker of Interstate 65 where he was taken into custody without further incident.
Keesling was taken to the Bartholomew County Jail where he was charged on allegations of Robbery with a Deadly Weapon, Battery with Serious Bodily Injury, Auto Theft, Intimidation, and Resisting Law Enforcement with a Vehicle.
